I am really happy to see someone doing something about the replication crisis. Sorry that you didn’t get funded. I know very little about FTX or grantmaking in general and so I can’t comment on the nature of your proposal or how to make it better. But now that I see someone doing something about the replication crisis I have done an update on the Tractability of this cause area and I am excited to learn more!
This excitement lead to some small actions from my end:
I visited the Institute for Replication website and found it to be very helpful. I really appreciate the effort that went into making the Teaching tab on the website. I will try to make time in the near future (within a month or so) to go through the resources carefully.
I looked for material on the replication crisis elsewhere on this forum. I found this panel discussion from EA Global 2016 and… thats about it! Since, IMO, not enough EA material is there on this cause area, I put down a comment in the What posts do you want someone to write? in the hopes that someone wading through it for ideas will decide to write more about it.
One thing still unclear to me—are there career opportunities here or just volunteer opportunities? In the proposal, you mentioned “reproducibility analysts at selected journals”—I had no idea that was a thing that people did! But it sounds like a very interesting role to me considering the Scale of the problem. How many people do it and is there a high demand for it? What sort of degree does someone need to do it?
All the best with the project! I sincerely hope someone else will fund it and it will be successful.
At this point, ‘reproducibility analyst’ = undergrad RAs; see this talk by AEA data editor Lars Vilhuber.
Otherwise, the replications are currently done by academics volunteering in their spare time, which is why it would help to have full-time paid replicators.
I am really happy to see someone doing something about the replication crisis. Sorry that you didn’t get funded. I know very little about FTX or grantmaking in general and so I can’t comment on the nature of your proposal or how to make it better. But now that I see someone doing something about the replication crisis I have done an update on the Tractability of this cause area and I am excited to learn more!
This excitement lead to some small actions from my end:
I visited the Institute for Replication website and found it to be very helpful. I really appreciate the effort that went into making the Teaching tab on the website. I will try to make time in the near future (within a month or so) to go through the resources carefully.
I subscribed to the BITSS YouTube Channel and skimmed through a couple of chapters of the open source textbook, Reproducible Data Science.
I looked for material on the replication crisis elsewhere on this forum. I found this panel discussion from EA Global 2016 and… thats about it! Since, IMO, not enough EA material is there on this cause area, I put down a comment in the What posts do you want someone to write? in the hopes that someone wading through it for ideas will decide to write more about it.
One thing still unclear to me—are there career opportunities here or just volunteer opportunities? In the proposal, you mentioned “reproducibility analysts at selected journals”—I had no idea that was a thing that people did! But it sounds like a very interesting role to me considering the Scale of the problem. How many people do it and is there a high demand for it? What sort of degree does someone need to do it?
All the best with the project! I sincerely hope someone else will fund it and it will be successful.
At this point, ‘reproducibility analyst’ = undergrad RAs; see this talk by AEA data editor Lars Vilhuber.
Otherwise, the replications are currently done by academics volunteering in their spare time, which is why it would help to have full-time paid replicators.